A Short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, [electronic resource] : perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770. By soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment; which with the XIVth Regiment were then quartered there: with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe.

[Boston] : Printed by order of the town of Boston, and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, 1770.

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

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38,81,[i.e., 83],[1]p. ; 8⁰.

At a town meeting March 12, 1770, James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton were appointed a committee to prepare a particular account of the massacre. The "Short narrative" was prepared, accepted at a town meeting held March 19, and ordered immediately printed.
CSmH reports copy with folded frontispiece "engrav'd, printed & sold by Paul Revere Boston."
Errors in paging: p. 81-83 misnumbered 79-81.
"Apendix containing the several depositions referred to in the preceding narrative .."--p. [1]-80, 2nd count. With an erratum statement at foot of p. 78, and certifications of authenticity, p. 79-80.
"An index to the appendix."--p. [81-83].
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

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Evans, 11580
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 75b
Sabin, 80669
Sabin, 80668
English Short Title Catalog, W3991.

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